Oughtmeen
Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Ucht Mín
- Area
- 467.7 ha
- 1,156 acres
- Land parcels
- 148
- registered freehold, median 5,113 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
148 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oughtmeen, from 22 m² to 439,473 m² (43.95 ha, 108.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Oughtmeen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 May 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650080
12 Dec 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251976
5 Jul 2022Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251149
5 Jul 2022N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251150
28 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151934
28 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151933
26 May 2021Conditional
PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151033
12 Feb 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH A SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050160
10 May 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950714
11 Apr 2018Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF (A) LOWER GROUND FLOOR/BASEMENT LEVEL TO DWELLING HOUSE, (B) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN SIDE AND ADDITIONAL/ AMENDED WINDOW AND ROOF LIGHTS TO DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) COMPLETION OF WORKS TO DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850543
2 Feb 2018N/a
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (B) ADDITIONAL AND AMENDED WINDOW AND ROOF LIGHTS TO DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850138
15 Dec 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A LIVINGROOM EXTENSION ON TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751905
15 Dec 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A PORCH EXTENSION ON TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751909
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Gannivegil Bog SAC 000142
- Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gannivegil Bog 000142
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oughtmeen.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1900, with single-bay lean-to addition recessed to east end. Straw-thatched roof with mesh over, having cast-iron rods to eaves and gables, and two rendered chimneystacks; felt roof to addition. Rendered walls with painted plinth course. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber windows and door. Single-storey outbuilding to southeast. Low stone boundary wall to front.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oughtmeen.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Oughtmeen, Dungloe5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Oughtmeen · Ucht Mín
- Area
- 4,676,574 m² (467.66 ha, 1,155.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Dunglow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunglow electoral division: 1,919 people in 798 households; 63% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Craghy, Croaghnashallog, Crovehy, Meenderryherk Glebe, Meenlecknalore, Tangaveane
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Oughtmeen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.